Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
LOADING A dumpster on Sunday during Marenisco Township's annual clean-up is Marvin Ceplina, who made short work of an assortment of old carpeting and other broken objects. Ceplina was stationed between Fair Avenue and Hall Street.
By P.J. GLISSON
Marenisco - When towns and townships sponsor annual clean-up days, residents have the opportunity to clear their homes, garages and yards of any items deemed no longer useful to themselves or anyone else.
Moreover, they can rid themselves of such clutter - sometimes by the truck-load - at no cost, thanks to local governments footing the bill.
Although such events typically take place in the spring or early summer, concerns with COVID-19 caused many local governments either to cancel or postpone their plans, with some reporting possible scheduling in the fall.
Marenisco Township was one place that opted to host its clean-up, as usual, during both days of the past weekend.
Marvin Ceplina, who has facilitated the collection for the past several years, said on Sunday afternoon that he didn't fill as many dumpsters as usual this year, but he did collect a plethora of household waste, from old bicycles to tired couches.
People tend to deliver anything that's just been "laying around," he said, adding that he's able to recycle some of the metal items.
"Usually, we do seven," he said of the number of dumpsters he was loading near Marenisco Town Hall. "We did four of them this year."
Ceplina - who has been running Milltowner Custom Trucking since losing his job at the former Ojibway Correctional Facility at the end of 2018 - estimated that the township may pay about $1,000 to empty each 40-yard dumpster.
According to Ceplina, refuse will be delivered to the Ironwood Transfer Station run by the Gogebic Solid Waste Management Authority.
